Should 15-M movement end occupations of Sol and other plazas?

The 15M movement has unexpectedly gained power and vitality, and its camps are the tip of the iceberg that is a new cycle of social protest. The camps serve as a point of symbolic reference and play the roles of amplifiers for social mobilizations underway and levers for future calls for action. It is not the time to end the encampments yet since they still have vitality and in many cities new camps are still rising up (or recently set up), following in the wake of the strongest camps.

It will be necessary to end the encampments once they begin to decline and to devote their energy and power toward neighborhood assemblies and future days of action. The camp in Barcelona is proposing the 19th of June as a day of demonstrations across the country, and it seems to me to be very important to translate the enormous sympathy that the camp movement has aroused into mobilization on that day.

   
Contribution to the online debat opened by the Spanish newspaper El País: "Should 15M Movement End Occupations of Sol and Other Plazas?". Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi.